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Privacy has become one of the defining issue of the Information Age. CIS has received national recognition for its interdisciplinary and multi-angle examination of privacy, particularly as it relates to emerging technology.

For over 15 years, Megan Gray has focused her legal practice on Information, Internet, Innovation, and Intangibles. Within those fields, she has worked as corporate counsel, litigator, and lobbyist for startups, established companies, non-profit organizations, trade associations, and government regulators. Read more » about Megan Gray

Ryan is a Non-Resident Fellow with the Center for Internet and Society. He is a lawyer with Microsoft, where he has practiced since 2007 and served as the lead privacy attorney for a number of Microsoft products and services, including Skype, Outlook.com, and Office. He has expertise in a range of privacy issues relating to product and service development, wiretap laws, online advertising, children, marketing and data breach notification. Read more » about Ryan Harkins

Woodrow Hartzog is an Assistant Professor at the Cumberland School of Law at Samford University. His research focuses on privacy, human-computer interaction, online communication, and electronic agreements. He holds a Ph.D. in mass communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, an LL.M. in intellectual property from the George Washington University Law School, and a J.D. from Samford University. He previously worked as an attorney in private practice and as a trademark attorney for the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Read more » about Woodrow Hartzog

Professor Joh teaches in criminal law and procedure, constitutional law, and policing at the U.C. Davis School of Law. Her research focuses on the regulation of the police, with special emphases on undercover operations, DNA evidence collection, and new surveillance technologies. Read more » about Elizabeth Joh

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Last evening we learned that Rep. Dutch Ruppersburger (D-MD) plans to again reintroduce the controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) at the start of the 114th Congress. Although it's impractical to speculate on the contents of the latest proposal without seeing its legislative language, if CISPA '15 simply is a mirror-image resubmission of last year's version (as I suspect it is) my previous comments about its shortcomings and controversies still remain relevant: Read more » about CISPA is back again. (Yes, again.)

Aaron Swartz died this month two years ago. On the evening of January 21, the American Bar Association White Collar Crime Committee is hosting an event about Aaron and his case. I'll be there, as will Brian Knappenberger, Director Of The Internet’s Own Boy, and Elliot Peters, Aaron's lawyer.

Most people believe that privacy and free speech are always at odds. People all over the world have struggled with how to reconcile the problems of media gossip with our commitment to free and open public debate for over a century. The rise of the Internet has made this problem more urgent. We live in an age of corporate and government surveillance of our lives. And our free speech culture has created an anything-goes environment on the web, where offensive and hurtful speech about others is rife. Read more » about Intellectual Privacy: Rethinking Civil Liberties in the Digital Age

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"In our increasingly digital world, the balance between privacy and free speech is tenuous, at best. But we often overlook the important ways in which privacy is necessary to protect our cherished civil liberties of freedom of speech, thought and belief.

That's why free speech should almost always win out over privacy, says Neil M. Richards, JD, a privacy law expert at Washington University in St. Louis and author of the new book, "Intellectual Privacy: Rethinking Civil Liberties in the Digital Age," published Feb. 2 by Oxford University Press. Read more » about Intellectual privacy vital to life in the digital age

"It's unclear whether Bolleart was seeking protection under Section 230 of the federal Communications Decency Act, which offers liability in some cases to "interactive computer service" providers that allow third parties to post information. That may not be a strong argument, "not if what you're prosecuting him for is what [he as] the site operator has said and done," said Danielle Citron, a professor at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law and an expert in cybercrime issues. "The extortion charges, to me, are incredibly strong," she said."Read more » about Harris Touts Conviction in First-of-its-Kind Revenge-Porn Case

"Danielle Citron, a professor at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law and author of the book Hate Crimes in Cyberspace, took a slightly different view. "Free speech doctrine is unlikely to stand in the way of an extortive business model -- crime-facilitating speech is unprotected speech," she said. "So is aiding and abetting cyberstalking and invasions of sexual privacy. And free speech values are hardly implicated.""Read more » about U.S. Government Takes Unprecedented Action Against Revenge Porn

"To the contrary, Woodrow Hartzog of Stanford’s Cumberland School of Law stepped out of the line established by the expert testimony preceding his. He cautioned against limiting consumer breach notification based on malicious intent, calling harm triggers dubious because it is difficult to draw a line of causation between stolen data and future harm. Meeting the burden of proof that harm is likely, Hartzog said, is nearly impossible.Read more » about House Takes First Steps on Federal Data Breach Law

Join Professor Gabriella Coleman for a fascinating talk on her new book, “Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous.” Professor Coleman’s book is an anthropological account of the hacktivist group, Anonymous, that details her many years as Anon’s confidante, interpreter, and erstwhile mouthpiece. Read more » about Professor Biella Coleman Lecture

On 24th February, the 2015 Digital Leaders Annual Lecture, ‘Digital Democracy,’ will take place at the Houses of Parliament.

The lecture will be hosted by Chloe Smith MP; the lecturer is Dr. Ben Scott, Senior Advisor to the Open Technology Institute at the New America Foundation in Washington DC and a Visiting Fellow at the Stiftung Neue Verantwortung in Berlin. Read more » about Digital Leaders Annual Lecture 2015